I remember reading that sometime in the early 1800s, a politician proposed shutting down the US Patent Office because (and I'm paraphrasing here) there was nothing else that could be patented. A century or two from now, there will be another idiot politician espousing the same idea once again.
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Date: 2006-06-04 08:29 pm (UTC)